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Title: Serving a Daily Dose of Reading

Post date: February 1 2012

Title: Announcing our Founding High School Principal!

Post date: January 15 2012

Title: Councilman Lander visits the Current Events Club

Post date: December 30 2011

A gift of ANY size helps BPCS support our students on their path to college.

Upcoming events

BPCS is an innovative public charter school whose mission is to pair students with excellent teachers in a college preparatory environment using the pillars of the International Baccalaureate program.
BPCS first opened its doors to sixth grade students in 2009. The school continues to add one grade each year until it will welcome twelfth grade students in the fall of 2015.
Our average class size is approximately twenty-four students, with a student to teacher ratio of approximately 12:1.

Charter schools are free, public schools that accept higher degrees of accountability in exchange for fewer bureaucratic regulations. Catering specifically to its student body, a charter school has greater flexibility in scheduling, curriculum design, teacher development and retention, and administrative procedure.
Students applicants are offered free admission by lottery.

We are an International Baccalaureate Candidate School. Supported by a collaborative faculty of high-quality professional educators, students are immersed in a rigorous academic curriculum based on the International Baccalaureate program, specifically designed to prepare students for success in the emerging global community. As of May 2011, we are officially a candidate school for the IB Middle Years Certificate Programme.
We value student diversity. We work hard to ensure that our student community reflects the full diversity of our district, Community School District 15. This provides our students the added opportunity of learning from each other.
We nurture excellent teachers: Significant professional development is required of all faculty. We also offer teachers the chance to participate in a collaborative teaching and learning environment.

For the 2011-13 school year, Brooklyn Prospect will be located at the Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School building at 500 Nineteenth Street, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, New York.
BPCS is currently in the process of building a fully dedicated, purpose built, ground up, permanent facility for our school. Our new building will be located in the Gowanus neighborhood at 270 Douglass Street (Third Ave), Brooklyn.

Admission is open to all students in CSD 15 first, followed by allotment of seats to students in other community school districts. Selection is made by lottery. Students register for our lottery simply by completing an application.
Brooklyn Prospect offers several admission preferences. Please link here to our admissions page.

Like traditional public schools, public charter schools are funded by the New York State Department of Education based on student enrollment. Brooklyn Prospect receives approximately $12,000 per student (more for low income students and students with special needs) yet additional funds must be raised by our school because this per student stipend is less than that expended for a student enrolled in non-chartered public school.
Fundraising supports Brooklyn Prospect’s expanded academic programs, our facility needs, and allows the school to best serve our students.

Brooklyn Prospect is located in CSD 15 which includes Park Slope, Gowanus, Sunset Park, Red Hook, Windsor Terrace and parts of Downtown Brooklyn. As of the 2011 school year, Brooklyn Prospect serves grades six through eight, with plans to expand one grade per year until 2015 when we will serve grades six through twelve.
Siblings of current students,students who reside in District 15 and student who reside in the district and qualify for free/reduced lunch and apply for our lottery will be first eligible to enroll at Brooklyn Prospect; once those sibling, free/reduced lunch and district resident applicants are seated, we will admit student applicants who applied from other districts. Each year we anticipate admitting approximately one hundred students into the sixth grade and will admit as many students into our other grades as there are seats available.
In 2012 we will open our new high school which will serve ninth through twelfth grades.
Utilizing the state lottery system, Brooklyn Prospect's goal is to serve a student population that mirrors the demographics of the surrounding community.

We work with the student’s Committee on Special Education to accommodate our students and their individual learning needs.

Yes, as of the 2011-2012 school year, Brooklyn Prospect students are expected to wear school uniforms. Please link to the dress code HERE.